The National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW), the Philippine Government's national machinery on women, in partnership with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat, organized/hosted the "ASEAN Regional Conference on Legislating and Programming towards an Integrative Approach to Gender-Based Violence and HIV AIDS" last December 1-3, 2009 at the InterContinental Hotel and Resort, Manila.

This is one of the projects identified in the Work Plan to Operationalize the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (DEVAW). The conference will gather participants from the ten (10) ASEAN member countries, the ASEAN Secretariat, and UNIFEM Southeast Asia.

The conference will explore the development and passage of policies and legislations, and the formulation and implementation of programs addressing both GBV and HIV/AIDS, and integrating the two, following a gender equality and human rights perspective.